The U.S. Department of Education recommended lastweek that Eastern Michigan University pay the largest fine ever leveled againsta school for failing to properly report crimes on campus.
Author: Michael Beder
N.Y. student punished for wearing pro-gay T-shirt gets apology
The Spencer-Van Etten Central School Districtagreed to make a public statement supporting students' right to wear T-shirtswith controversial messages, satisfying demands made by civil libertiesadvocates after a student was punished for wearing a shirt supporting gayrights.
Authorities have no leads in theft of student paper in Utah
Almost a fifth of the Southern Utah University Journal's Nov. 26 print run was stolen, and university officials so far have made no progress determining who might have taken the papers or why.
Student government president fires newspaper's attorney
The president of Montclair State University'sStudent Government Association fired the student newspaper's attorney inNovember, arguing that the contract between the SGA-sponsored Montclarionand its attorney was improper under SGA bylaws.
5th Circuit upholds Texas school's punishment of student who wrote violent story
School administrators were justified in punishing ahigh school student who wrote a violent story in his notebook, a federal appealscourt ruled Nov. 20 in a decision that free-speech advocates fear could greatly expand officials' power to censor student expression.
Mock campaign ad might have triggered newspaper theft at Missouri-Rolla
About 1,600 copies of the Nov. 8 edition of the University of Missouri at Rolla's student newspaper were stolen, possibly in response to a mock campaign ad criticizing a member of the student government.
Contests encourage students to show new-media skills
Two national contests offer students a chance to win recognition and prize money by demonstrating their new-media skills.
High school editors reach settlement in suit over paper's masthead
WASHINGTON -- Both sides claimed victory in a settlement announced Thursday that ended a nearly two-year-old lawsuit over whether Everett High School's principal could demand to review issues of the student newspaper before they went to press.
Tufts reverses ban on unsigned editorials
MASSACHUSETTS -- Tufts University's administration announced Monday it had overturned a decision banning a student journal from running unsigned editorials. In a separate statement, President Lawrence Bacow said the private school in the future will behave as though it were bound by the First Amendment.
School board members dismissed from Ark. dress code case
ARKANSAS -- Three students who were punished for wearing black armbands to protest their school district's dress code can continue their claims against the district, its superintendent and the principal of the junior high school. But a federal judge on Wednesday dismissed the portions of the suit brought against individual school board members.